…engineering and math. For 20 years, the Concord Consortium has been developing deeply digital tools and learning activities that capture the power of curiosity and create revolutionary new approaches to…
…the expertise of their designers, teacher support frameworks and wealth of related materials. In addition, thanks to a new grant from the National Science Foundation, students will soon be able…
…the workforce is considered “cheating” when practiced in school. In response to this dilemma we have embarked on a new project called Teaching Teamwork with Tidewater Community College, CORD and…
…by some of those projects to support educational research and assessment based on analyzing and visualizing process data collected by sophisticated learning software. “New technologies thus bring the potential of…
…certain behavior or outcome. We are developing a new web-based systems modeling tool—SageModeler— based on the MySystem concept mapping tool developed at the Concord Consortium, and on Model-It, a systems…
…puts too much emphasis on facts and not on active learning. I lean towards the active learning camp, which is a more powerful way to incorporate new knowledge, though it…
…but scientists conducted observations, analyzed data and made research decisions from shore? Thanks to a new project, scientists can test this scenario, and students can also conduct remote research. The…
…for students to work with data, curriculum developers need easy access to data analysis tools and an environment that can be embedded in their materials. Q. What is the new…
…Jessica took the initiative to design her own SmartGraphs activity, learn to use the authoring system, and create the new web-based activity (which runs directly in a browser, without any…
Importance Instead of cookbook experiments with known outcomes, science education should be more authentic and more like contemporary science. A new generation of inexpensive technology can bring this goal closer…